February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... and the value it has in not only creating new knowledge, but new technologies that benefit all of us every day. The empty... role in that endeavour. We’ve been able to build many new exhibits and add lots of multimedia over time. We’re now even ...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
...received a US$2.8 million European Union Horizon 2020 grant in June 2018, ThrustMe is planning to finalise testing of its new technology and bring the system to market within a year. In the meantime, it also has a conventional plasma thruster product...
May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
... satellites, businesses being able to provide components for new space infrastructure developed overseas, as well as our researchers working together on new technologies such as laser communications. Our goal is to triple the size of the local space...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... are seeing this and likely beginning to retool their cyber capabilities to leverage this new economy which, like all new technology, is woefully undefended. Features first, security second. A Tiantong-1 Mobile Communications Satellite was placed...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... Didymos A body during the final hour of the mission. The DART spacecraft will also demonstrate other new technologies, including NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) ion engine, developed by NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... quantum key encryption and miniaturised propulsion advances for cubesats. The next steps will be to leverage these new technologies in spacecraft for use beyond Earth orbit, expanding the commercial remote sensing market to the Moon, Mars...
